Kartlink Newsletter #7

This week’s hot topic:

Predictions for the start of the season in 2024…

As we start the 2014 season there’s as usual a few problems in karting and a few promising signs, so I’m thinking ten years ahead.

– CIK non-gearbox racing will just be starting to grow again as costs will have spiralled out of control in Rotax and to a lesser extent X30. Please note I think that the costs have very little to do with the intrinsic cost of the equipment and more to do with an arms race between teams and parents.
– Senior non-gearbox CIK racing will have dwindled to nothing but gearbox will be thriving.
– The CIK won’t have done the simplest thing and re homologated the Sudams and announced World and European Championships for those. It’ll be some strange idea dreamt up by a committee. Of Italians.
– In the UK there will just be a hard core of MSA tracks and MSA-licensed drivers, mostly just those wanting to host and compete in national and international events. The rest will find the MSA to be an irrelevance. There may even be a coherent IKR movement although it will have to be very careful not to cause the same problems as existing organisations.
– If there is still much MSA-licensed activity it will be based on visiting championships rather than – club-driven.
– TKM will still be going strong, possibly mostly Clubman in Seniors with an elite core of Extremes.
– Colin Wright will have done a good job as Chairman of the ABkC in challenging circumstances and will still be in post.
– The teams will have created an organisation to rival the BKIA and will be having a big influence on rules and organisation.

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